people in more crowded areas tend to be obama voters. those in less populated areas tended to vote romney. overall, democrats do best in heavily populated areas and heavily populated suburbs even when they are in red states. republicans have an edge in the affluent suburbs. the less densely populated areas between the suburbs and more populated areas. tights folks stuck in the middle up for grabs. richard flores says it's been that way for the last decade or so. he writes from 1996 to 2004 the middle class suburbs leaned republican. since then, it's been a tug of war with the democrats coming out on top in 2006 and 2008. the republicans pulling ahead in 2010 and the democrats making a comeback in this area in the 2012 election. so with me now to talk about this i've got dante ginny, director of the american communities project at american university and co-author of our patchwork major leagues nation and richard flores himself, co d co-editor and founder at large of the atlantic. dante, you've been breaking this up for quite some time. w